Re: “Canadians rejecting socialist engineering,” letter, April 18.
In fact, the NDP in Alberta lost about three per cent of the vote, down from about 40 per cent four years ago to about 33 per cent today. “Socialist” engineers apparently make up about a third of the Alberta population.
The NDP should never have been in power in Alberta. The previous election was only another manifestation of our undemocratic first-past-the-post type of voting. Under a proportional-representation system, the NDP would have had to get another party to support its legislation.
More likely would have been a Wild Rose/Progressive Conservative coalition. Alberta has always been a one-party conservative province.
The new United Conservative Party government was elected with over 50 per cent of the vote and is one of the few legitimately elected majority governments in Canada. British Columbia’s NDP/Green alliance, with just under 60 per cent of the electorate, is the other.
Robert Pellow
Parksville
